The government of Singapore has outlined plans to boost research into energy efficiency and to deploy low carbon technologies across its economy.
It has announced S$100 million of funding for research into how buildings and data centres can be made more energy efficient, and has also released five technology roadmaps giving plans for the use of technologies in the solar, energy efficiency and carbon capture and storage (CCS) sectors.
The plans were developed as part of the government's Energy National Innovation Challenge set up in 2011 to identify energy solutions that were cost-competitive and could be implemented within 20 years.
They identify solar energy, green data centres, building energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency and CCS as key areas where investment would help Singapore to reduce energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions.
The government believes that solar energy will play an increasingly important role in Singapore and wants to take advantage of improvements in PV technology. It also says that there are strong growth prospects for data centres in Singapore and wants this industry to use a broad range of technology to improve energy efficiency.
The roadmaps identify four key areas where technology could be used to improve energy efficiency in buildings, and say that the industrial sector, which accounts for more than half of Singapore's energy demand, can be made more energy efficient through implementing new technologies in the petroleum, petrochemical, semiconductor and pharmaceutical sectors.
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